Quite the contrast in styles between these three as they make their entrances. David Finlay is low key menace. Jon Moxley has a mask on like the Red Hood of DC Comics fame. And Will Ospreay makes his way in to an extra dose of orchestral showmanship before his normal theme hits.
Ospreay and Moxley seem to agree to take out Finlay as they talked about at the press conference, backing the Bullet Club leader into the corner and taking turns stomping him. He tries to rush out and eventually ducks out to the floor … but the other two men meet him there and crotch him on the barricade, where he also takes a lariat from Mox.
Things don’t get much better for Finlay as the fight goes further out into the crowd, and Moxley is able to suplex him on the floor right in front of the announcers. Mox gets out a table, and Finlay is quickly sent through it by both of his enemies.
That allows Ospreay and Moxley to settle things between themselves in the ring for a bit, where they trade strikes and suplexes. Mox rains down right hands in the corner, then rakes Ospreay’s back in the opposite corner until he gets a thrust kick to the face.
Moxley counters an Oscutter with a suplex, then shrugs off a standing Spanish Fly to try for an armbar. He switches to a triangle choke, shrugs off a buckle bomb and runs over Ospreay with a lariat.
The battle goes to the apron, where Ospreay is back dropped before Finlay finally rejoins the fray and runs Moxley into the post. Ospreay smacks Finlay with a hook kick but is taken right back down with a shillelagh-assisted neckbreaker.
Moxley is bleeding now, to no one’s surprise, and Finlay is just making it worse. Way worse. Mox finally suplexes his way out of trouble, but now Ospreay is back for a back handspring double kick.
Ospreay runs off Moxley’s back to elbow Finlay, and after seeing Mox deliver a tope suicida to Finlay, he one ups them with a moonsault that offers a pretty hard landing for the Aerial Assassin.
A right hand from Mox greets Ospreay as he springboards back into the ring, and a Death Rider comes close to winning it for Moxley. A bulldog choke comes right in its wake, as well as hammer and anvil elbows.
Moxley goes back to the choke, then bites Ospreay on the face. Finlay comes in and gets piledriven right onto Ospreay’s chest; Mox covers Ospreay and gets two.
Moxley decides to throw a bunch of chairs into the ring, then into the faces of his foes. He sets two chairs up back to back, but he’s the one who ends up feeling the pain thanks to Finlay, who also uses a Dominator on Ospreay to smash Mox and cover him for a near fall.
Ospreay counters Oblivion with a Stundog Millionaire, setting off a series of moves by all three men in turn. Finlay throws Ospreay out of the ring after a Hidden Blade on Mox, trying in vain to steal the win.
Oblivion comes for Moxley, and suddenly all three men are breaking up each other’s pinfalls. No one is particularly quick to get off the mat, however.
Forearm shots are flying in every direction, but Finlay is between a rock and a hard place. A defiant middle finger salute and expletive only ensures both his opponents will focus on him. Just when it looks bleakest, the War Dogs hit the ring, quickly overpowering Ospreay and choking Moxley.
Moxley and Ospreay finally recover enough to dish out punishment to the War Dogs as the 20-minute mark passes. If that isn’t enough, Ospreay hits a Swanton Bomb to send both War Dogs through the tables, or partway through at least.
Back in the ring, Mox gives Finlay two Death Riders, and Ospreay hits the Hidden Blade and Stormbreaker on Moxley. Finlay executes Oblivion on Ospreay and looks like he’s stolen it, and is frustrated when it’s only for two.
Lifting Ospreay up, Finlay drops him down for a knee to the face, and the Rebel Club boss is the first ever Global Heavyweight Champion.
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